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Embolism

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

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Interval 76% connected

A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Occlusion 76% connected

The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.

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Embolic 74% connected

Embolismic.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Embolic 74% connected

Embolismic.

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Containing whole 1

Calendar 70% connected

An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the yea…

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Embolus 70% connected

Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

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Intercalation 92% connected

The insertion of a day, or other portion of time, in a calendar.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Abib noun · 78% connection

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was ca…

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Account noun · 78% connection

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of the…

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Almanac noun · 78% connection

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as…

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Bissextile noun · 78% connection

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

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Decade noun · 78% connection

A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second…

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December noun · 78% connection

The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.

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Elul noun · 78% connection

The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month…

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Embolismical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.

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Epenthesis noun · 78% connection

the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier; "the insertion of a vowel in the plural of the wor…

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February noun · 78% connection

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty…

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Infliximab noun · 78% connection

an anti-TNF compound (trade name Remicade) consisting of an antibody directed against TNF; it is given intravenously at one-month to t…

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Insertion noun · 78% connection

The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.

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Instant adjective · 78% connection

A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant…

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Interpolate verb · 78% connection

To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter th…

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Lunar adjective · 78% connection

Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.

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Menstrual adjective · 78% connection

Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as,…

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Metemptosis noun · 78% connection

The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bisse…

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Modern adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern da…

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